Vian is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Vian in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Vian in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Vian by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Vian ranks at #4,096. That means there are 4,095 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Vian.
Meeting a man or boy named Vian is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Vian can be found in only two: California and New York. No other state currently has residents named Vian. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Vian living in one state or another. (If your name is Vian and you live outside of California or New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Vian is in California, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00010% of all male residents are called Vian – that’s just one in 1,020,730! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 22 men going by that name. So, if your name is Vian, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The V is really rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.3% of all common boys' names in the US begin with a V. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With four letters, the name Vian is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 1.3% of all boys' names start with a V, all other letters occur on average three times as often as the V. Nevertheless, individual boys' names with V are quite popular, the most common currently being Vincent.
If your name is Vian and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Vian, you can simply say:
Violin
Igloo
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Vian
Vian
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
V
I
A
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
V
I
A
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Vian sounds like this:
